Displaying Progress
The HTML5 recommendation includes a new element—named the progress element—that enables you to display a progress indicator. There are two basic types of progress indicators: an indeterminate and a determinate progress indicator.
You use an indeterminate progress indicator when you want to show a busy wait indicator, and you do not know how much longer a task will take. Here’s how you declare an indeterminate progress indicator:
<progress id="progress1"></progress>
In a Windows Store app, the default progress indicator displays a set of animated dots moving horizontally (see Figure 5.17).
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